The Chess Valley Bridleways Association was founded in 1973 following the death of a horse involved in a road traffic accident, and provides a central body to represent horse riders in an area bounded by Watford, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth, Chorleywood, Little Chalfont, Amersham, Chesham, Bovingdon, Hemel Hempstead and Kings Langley.

Following the death of another horse on the road in Chipperfield in 1993, the Jasmine Safety Track was established, under the umbrella of the CVBA.

One of the main purposes of the CVBA, if not the principle one, is to contribute to making the area as safe as possible for all road users, and the Association keeps in regular touch with parish, district and county councils, landowners and other bodies interested in rights of way. The association also contributes to the maintenance of permissive tracks and organises a network of licenced tracks in the area. The permissive tracks are not statutory rights of way but tracks where the landowner, be they parish or district councils or private landowners, have agreed access across their land for horses. The licenced track network is managed by the CVBA in conjunction with three local landowners who are paid an annual rental fee for the use of designated tracks across their land, and is open to CVBA members who pay an annual fee to use the tracks. The scheme has been in operation for some 12 years.

The Jasmine Safety Track Trust aims to create safe off-road riding and being a Trust is permitted to have assets. To date the Trust has purchased land and established two permanent horse tracks, The Narrows in Chipperfield and the Memorial Track at Bucks Hill. The Trust has also negotiated with several local landowners and gained permission for horses to cross their land on specified routes, for which an annual rental is paid by the Trust.